tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.comments2015-03-30T09:54:51.830-05:00THE HORRORS OF IT ALLKarswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15889717828895556186noreply@blogger.comBlogger17707125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-81264126353314893402015-03-30T06:36:33.724-05:002015-03-30T06:36:33.724-05:00I like the art too. Very strokey and emotional. Ev...I like the art too. Very strokey and emotional. Everybody has this stringy, windblown quality. And I love the sympathetic shape to those stolen eyes. Screw anatomy; how are kids gonna recognize a bucket full of eyes that look just like marbles? I imagine them all winking on and off like fairy lights. Mr. Cavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01634994342702518448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-54568594828623464082015-03-29T21:41:03.629-05:002015-03-29T21:41:03.629-05:00It might sound awful of me, but after that introdu...It might sound awful of me, but after that introduction, I was prepared to see some kids actually get eaten.<br />Of course, you do see one &quot;this close&quot; to it. Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-2934915301959006232015-03-29T17:50:06.487-05:002015-03-29T17:50:06.487-05:00I like that one. Very odd, however.I like that one. Very odd, however.Doug Brunellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10557590754803213897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-65672479268450618522015-03-29T13:11:27.241-05:002015-03-29T13:11:27.241-05:00Very stardust-ish, but that was par for the course...Very stardust-ish, but that was par for the course in 40s comics. We could actually use some of these types of stories in modern comics. Sure, they lack in consistency or logical reasoning, and stuff just happens, but the swamp fever ultimate god-like revenge has it&#39;s own type of breezy, fun read.<br /><br />I like the angular art!<br /><br />No wonder the dog can&#39;t find a bone, Mother Hubbard is too busy constantly dealing with her spider-sense than shopping!Brian Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737535617796413548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-14058098218276412242015-03-29T10:18:42.297-05:002015-03-29T10:18:42.297-05:00She&#39;s lovely. The real Wonder Woman.
I&#39;d l...She&#39;s lovely. The real Wonder Woman.<br />I&#39;d like to see her and Etrigan in a poetry slam.J_D_La_Rue_67http://www.blogger.com/profile/13620923188907903146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-67338912161811237972015-03-27T07:49:41.917-05:002015-03-27T07:49:41.917-05:00Along with everything else, this story has the che...Along with everything else, this story has the cherished horror film cliché of the cute couple in a car being terrorized by the creature. All that&#39;s missing is actually seeing them on Lovers&#39; Lane.Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-73790699813011542072015-03-27T07:44:32.154-05:002015-03-27T07:44:32.154-05:00To some of us, the greatest story of this general ...To some of us, the greatest story of this general kind is the Outer Limits episode THE SIXTH FINGER (which is mainly about a character evolving FORWARD, but it also has a quick moment of this kind). But any story of this general kind interests me, like THE ANCESTOR by August Derleth. Like this story, that one has a scientist &quot;devolving&quot; over and over, and a narrator staying at his home who takes the whole story to realize it. Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-32400068318326656582015-03-26T08:43:49.744-05:002015-03-26T08:43:49.744-05:00Well this is exactly my kind of story! If I a goin...Well this is exactly my kind of story! If I a going to read a half-whatever knee-whatever space filler, I want it to be a werewolf story like this one, where the mad science is a hoot (&quot;Every time I do the exact same thing, the exact same thing happens!&quot;) and the resulting creature fights an ape (&quot;Don&#39;t be a fool, Diane--&#39;survival of the fittest&#39; means they&#39;ll eventually kill one another!&quot;). Marvelous!Mr. Cavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01634994342702518448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-30581239678760073242015-03-25T17:02:58.587-05:002015-03-25T17:02:58.587-05:00Remember the 1980 movie Altered States with Willia...Remember the 1980 movie <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YfdpZdugBM" rel="nofollow"><i>Altered States</i></a> with William Hurt? It&#39;s sort of the same story.<br /><br />The last panel on page four seems to suggest that when Dr. Gordell transforms back <i>his clothes also come back!</i><br /><br />Dr. Gordell&#39;s elixir restores youth and gives you muscles instantly, without working out. Too bad about the brain. It&#39;s two-thirds of a success!Mestierehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469030153414408109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-80748880646597230682015-03-25T15:27:44.553-05:002015-03-25T15:27:44.553-05:00I agree with Brian. I love&#39;em just the way the...I agree with Brian. I love&#39;em just the way they are, all of them. Though I prefer little bouncing/floating heads. And female vampires.J_D_La_Rue_67http://www.blogger.com/profile/13620923188907903146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-46329075742148513642015-03-25T14:29:38.177-05:002015-03-25T14:29:38.177-05:00I&#39;d like to point out specifically that when s...I&#39;d like to point out specifically that when some of us poke fun at one of these stories, at least talking for myself -- I still love reading them. We are just adding to the fun of commenting, and every story you publish, rather it&#39;s a gem or, well, this story, I love it, and I suspect so does everybody.<br /><br />Except that Atlas ass. :)<br /><br />Any snark we might poor out does mean we don&#39;t love these any less (again, talking for me.) We all appreciate the time you put into this!Brian Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737535617796413548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-39498212611777703992015-03-25T13:10:05.105-05:002015-03-25T13:10:05.105-05:00Well I&#39;ve said it before, and I&#39;m sure I&#...Well I&#39;ve said it before, and I&#39;m sure I&#39;ll say it many many more times here, they can&#39;t all be winners... cuz they aren&#39;t!Karswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15889717828895556186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-4683598583114541332015-03-25T13:06:33.128-05:002015-03-25T13:06:33.128-05:00That is the kind of story that someone comes up wi...That is the kind of story that someone comes up with at the last moment to fill in some spare pages. Just about the most half-assed effort I have seen.Pearse O'Learyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01065994163514371112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-88642005911103531052015-03-25T12:09:54.261-05:002015-03-25T12:09:54.261-05:00It&#39;s a predictable story, though maybe in &#39...It&#39;s a predictable story, though maybe in &#39;52 still had some sense. We are facing the umpteenth version of Jekyll, plus the old literary prejudice that evolution (or regression) is an individual process and can be stimulated by some medical treatment or something. Edmond Hamilton used it in &quot;The Man who evolved&quot; (1931), Jack Arnold used it in &quot;Monster of the Campus&quot; (1958), and Jack Kirby kept on using it in the 70&#39;s in a nice way to improve (at least temporarily) the insufferable twit Jimmy Olsen. Unfortunately (?) evolution is in the species, not in the individual. Lovecraft knew better, as many of his &quot;transformations&quot; are related to &quot;atavism&quot; or inter-species relations. Not much of a prehistoric man in this story, looks more like a cousin of mine than a Neanderthalian. I think there&#39;s nothing wrong in having a Neanderthalian for President by the way. Minorities deserve their chance.J_D_La_Rue_67http://www.blogger.com/profile/13620923188907903146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-8952489910709123072015-03-25T10:31:04.269-05:002015-03-25T10:31:04.269-05:00Let me be the first end to make the obvious joke: ...Let me be the first end to make the obvious joke: comparing Cruz to a murderous, lumbering cave-man isn&#39;t fair to the cave-man!<br /><br />Though maybe Cruz has a point, he doesn&#39;t trust science, and why not, look at what it does! :)<br /><br />I love the crappy edit on the last speech balloon on page 2. Good art, silly story, terrible ending. Of course, the scientist just doesn&#39;t put 2+2 together after, what, 3 to 4 nights of drinking the potion?<br /><br />BTW, this thing reminds me of WWBN in the fact that he has ripped, green pants, and has the same kind of facial transformation scene you&#39;d see in WWBN (more than likely lifted from Universal&#39;s use of it.)Brian Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737535617796413548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-82806620456359519802015-03-23T13:10:37.550-05:002015-03-23T13:10:37.550-05:00We did a comparison of those covers before here, i...We did a comparison of those covers before here, it&#39;s funny when a publishers thinks they&#39;re pulling a fast one on us. Same with the WEB OF EVIL series, check out this one from the archives:<br /><br />http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2008/04/web-of-evil.htmlKarswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15889717828895556186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-84462489003525197842015-03-23T12:42:34.169-05:002015-03-23T12:42:34.169-05:00Eerie recicled the same woman in the cover just fo...<i>Eerie</i> recicled the same woman in the cover <a href="http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/n_iv/600/805599.jpg" rel="nofollow">just four issues later</a> with different coloring and then <i>again</i> in <a href="http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/n_iv/600/805963.jpg" rel="nofollow">issue 13</a>. It looks like she was quite popular!Mestierehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469030153414408109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-23905768051152689452015-03-23T08:40:38.735-05:002015-03-23T08:40:38.735-05:00I&#39;m surprised no one has mentioned Beaumont&#3...I&#39;m surprised no one has mentioned Beaumont&#39;s resemblance to the Joker at the end. Since I know Golden Age (and most Silver Age) comics so badly, I don&#39;t even know whether he was being drawn like that at the time. If not, it&#39;s a real coincidence.<br /><br />Was the second cover (as opposed to the story itself) actually drawn for &quot;Weird Romance&quot;? Either way, it reminds me of one of the few clichés in that kind of story that I&#39;m NOT sentimental about, the &quot;spanking&quot; joke. And in my case, I don&#39;t even have serious reasons like sexism; I just never liked it, period.Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-86650346140199370182015-03-23T05:59:55.375-05:002015-03-23T05:59:55.375-05:00I almost can&#39;t believe the second one is a 197...I almost can&#39;t believe the second one is a 1971 comic, I&#39;d have said 10 years before maybe. But it has a nice silly little moral, ok.<br />As for the first story, it IS funny (&quot;I&#39;m good looking, why can&#39;t I be a model?&quot; Because the first one to hire you will be a raving maniac, that&#39;s why),but the art makes it cool. Love gorgeus female ghosts, especially when they scream &quot;Faster! Faster!&quot;.<br />Nice double feature!J_D_La_Rue_67http://www.blogger.com/profile/13620923188907903146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-68181327258697023522015-03-22T21:17:44.701-05:002015-03-22T21:17:44.701-05:00The cover is unrelated to anything inside the issu...The cover is unrelated to anything inside the issue... Master of the Cats and the Jack the Ripper story are already both in THOIA&#39;s archiveKarswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15889717828895556186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-16105890777905409382015-03-22T21:09:57.696-05:002015-03-22T21:09:57.696-05:00Speaking of that first cover, which story does it ...Speaking of that first cover, which story does it go with, &quot;Master of the Cats&quot;? <br />(Having almost a one-track mind, I can&#39;t help being curious about ANYTHING concerning that cover. <br />But I&#39;m also sentimental about almost any weird story that has to do with Egypt.)Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-27541340085374942462015-03-22T20:46:08.495-05:002015-03-22T20:46:08.495-05:00I think that&#39;s the point to these romance comi...I think that&#39;s the point to these romance comics originally intended for a female audience, to show the ladies that they can rise above and be better than the idiotic male race that drives them insane with their stupid manly baloney. Go girls!Karswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15889717828895556186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-91984436529479231672015-03-22T16:20:20.283-05:002015-03-22T16:20:20.283-05:00Sid Check was really channeling his inner Wally Wo...Sid Check was really channeling his inner Wally Wood on that cover. &quot;Sid, we need a cover, make sure the breasts are front and center!&quot;<br /><br />First story has a good twist, I didn&#39;t see that one coming. It&#39;s hard to read a story like that in 2015 knowing who the heck would answer and ad like that, and then comely explain to the weirdo in the haunted house how nobody knows or cares where they are!<br /><br />The second one -- wow. Romance stories have a way of painting women as wishy-washy (the sports star or the educated man!) or gold diggers (I&#39;ll go with the big city slicker instead of the the country boy that loves me) but this woman, what the heck lesson is she learning? She&#39;s the most 2D character I&#39;ve seen in a romance comic in a long time (and I read Weird Love!) and just ... geesh, a self-centered bitch, through and through. And these comics were read by women? Yikes!<br /><br />Berlin does a good job here, he&#39;d definitely get better at drawing Werewolves in the future. And the unauthorized Popeye got through editorial (unless Charlton had a license at that time.)Brian Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737535617796413548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-79431432047960380562015-03-22T11:07:10.478-05:002015-03-22T11:07:10.478-05:00It&#39;s always a good sign of a healthy relations...It&#39;s always a good sign of a healthy relationship when a child has to be placed in occupation-specific mortal danger for the significant other to change their opinion.<br /><br />&quot;You big oaf! What ever made you think being a &#39;sugar cube salesman&#39; was a good idea? We&#39;re through!&quot;<br />&quot;Oh, no! This child is hypoglycemic, and he&#39;s having an attack! Does anyone have a small amount of glucose for him to ingest?&quot;<br /><i>(Deep breath)</i> &quot;Time to shine.&quot;Cheswick Stoddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02340526426993960520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-67106706807431685502015-03-22T10:59:55.016-05:002015-03-22T10:59:55.016-05:00PLUS both dudes get hairy in these stories-- anoth...PLUS both dudes get hairy in these stories-- another reason they go so great together :)Karswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15889717828895556186noreply@blogger.com